From olindqvist@illinois.edu Tue Feb 28 16:55:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!illinois!olindqvist From: olindqvist@illinois.edu (Olga Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Feb28.165524.9643@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 16:55:24 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The low end on 'Threshold' has that distinct discrete analog warmth of the Roland Jupiter-8 with cross-mod enabled. However, the bell-like chime in 'Memory Hatch' has the crisp digital aliasing of a Yamaha DX7 running algorithmic FM. Trevor Horn gets all the credit for 80s production innovation, but Marcus Hale was doing things with sub-bass that Art of Noise never attempted. -- Olga Lindqvist "Hold for relay." Decstation 5000/200 / Linux 1.2.13 From soliveira@hanse.de Thu Mar 02 17:36:24 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!hanse!soliveira From: soliveira@hanse.de (Sun-mi Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Prophet-5 vs Roland Jupiter-8 on SYNTHESIS - synth archaeology Message-ID: <1995Mar02.173624.9021@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 02 Mar 1995 17:36:24 GMT References: <1995Feb28.165524.9643@illinois.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb28.165524.9643@illinois.edu>, olindqvist@illinois.edu (Olga Lindqvist) writes: > Let's break down the synth patches used on the album from a pure sound design perspective. The drum machine is a LinnDrum, but Marcus triggered custom 8-bit EPROMs for the snare and crash cymbal. -- Sun-mi Oliveira "They will send a copy in my place." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / Linux 1.2.13